Romo shows true leadership

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tony Romo passed for 351 yards and two touchdowns without an interception, but I thought the most impressive thing about his performance Sunday in the 26-20 OT win over the Chiefs was the leadership he displayed.

When Cowboys were killing themselves with mistake after mistake, Romo was a calming influence, proving that you don’t have to yell and get in guys’ faces to be a leader.

“I told them, each one of them, pick your heads up, as we go forward here you are going to have another play that matters more than the last one, that’s going to be even more important than the last one. And they kept grinding,” Romo said.

Even though Romo suffered a fumble that helped the Chiefs take a 10-0 lead, he never lost his poise.

“No. 9 was above that,” Jerry Jones said. “He played above all the mistakes. He obviously had some drops, but he played so well in a situation where he could have gotten in the tank very easily.”

Romo had a tough time last week with all the fan and media scrutiny in the wake of this two-turnover performance in the 17-10 loss to Denver.

That’s one of the reasons he sprinted into the end zone to join in the dog-pile celebration after Miles Austin’s 60-yard winning catch-and-run touchdown.

“It was like I was a little kid again,” Romo said. “You are just so excited. Obviously, you are happy to win the football game, but you are so excited for so many people, myself included.”

But he was happiest for his teammates.

“The guys just really battled so hard this week and went through a lot of junk with a lot of different things,” Romo said. “To come out here and to get down the way we did, it would have been easy to just, OK, hang it up, or town it down and say, we got to get back to it next week. But we didn’t do that. That speaks a lot about this team. There is a lot of resiliency out here and a lot of competitive individuals….If we continue to do this, I like our changes the rest of the way.”